This volume applies two fashionable theoretical paradigms--"The Other" and "intercultural dialogue"--to Russian film and television.
Author(s): Stephen Hutchings
Edition: First Edition
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 240
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on the Contributors......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
Part I: Russia Represents the Other......Page 40
1 Scant Sign of Thaw: Fear and Anxiety in the Representation of Foreigners in the Soviet Films of the Khrushchev Years......Page 42
2 ‘The Italians are Coming!’ Italy and the ‘Other’ in Soviet Cinema......Page 62
3 In the Cuckoo’s Nest: From a Postcolonial Wondertale to a Post-Authoritarian Parable......Page 77
4 Sokurov’s Russian Ark: Reflections on the Russia/Europe Theme......Page 92
5 The New American Other in Post-Soviet Russian Cinema......Page 110
Part II: The Other Represents Russia......Page 126
6 Lost in Translation? Early Soviet Sound Film Abroad......Page 128
7 Cinema Thinking the Unthinkable: Cold War Film and the Non-Reality of Russia......Page 145
8 Bilingualism, Miscegenation and Incest in East/West and Indochine: Russia’s Place in the French Postcolonial Imagination......Page 163
9 Through the ‘Other’ Lens? Russians on the Global Screen......Page 181
10 Russian Marital Migrants in Contemporary Film......Page 199
11 Angel, Avenger or Trickster? The ‘Second-World Man’ as the Other and the Self......Page 214
Conclusion......Page 235
Select Bibliography......Page 241
B......Page 248
C......Page 249
F......Page 250
I......Page 251
M......Page 252
O......Page 253
R......Page 254
S......Page 255
T......Page 256
Z......Page 257
